Wrongbot, I wanted to note a disparity between what you say here:
The most recent common ancestor [chimpanzees] share with humans lived somewhere between 3 million and 800,000 years ago.
and what that Wikipedia article on bonobos says twice:
The chimpanzee line split from the last common ancestor shared with humans approximately six to seven million years ago.
From Paul Graham's essay:
Maybe there is something I am missing, but I don't understand his last sentence. How do you take two people, and "subtract one from the other" ?